Susanne Lee Huttner

Susanne Lee Huttner is Director of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, overseeing the work of the Information, Computer and Communications Policy Division. She brings over twenty years of experience in the fields of science and engineering research initiatives and of industry-university research partnership for economic development. This included major initiatives in IT and networking. She most recently was Associate Vice-Provost for Major Research Initiatives and Industry Partnerships in the University of California Office of the President, where she worked since 2001. 

Over the past decade, she has been responsible for the California Institutes for Science and Innovation and the Industry-University Cooperative Research Programme, which engage R&D companies and represent a large joint research investment portfolio in high tech and bioscience fields.  Ms. Huttner holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, a PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA, and a University of California Management Institute certificate.